07-14-2006, 10:43 AM
Quote:Right, but sometimes it's nice to see that 40% of the healing a person did was overhealing. While you could calculate this from DM (and it might be in the newest version) it's nice to just see it out there.
Overhealing is calculated in the newer versions of DamageMeters, yes.
The problem is that overhealing is almost _always_ caused by someone else using an inefficient fast heal (or instant, in the case of druids/shamans) while your slower, efficient heal is casting. I've lost count of the number of times I've been hit by thunderclap for 1k damage, cast a renew on myself, and then received about 10k healing from the other healers. Given client/server lag it's often difficult to interrupt a greater heal especially if my target hits full health in the last 0.5 seconds before my heal is cast. Result? Someone else moves 'up' the healing meters, whereas all I do is move up the overhealing meter, despite me being the one casting efficiently. It doesn't take this happening often for it to look like I'm constantly overhealing through being efficient.
DamageMeters for healing are pretty much universally pointless.
You don't know what you're talking about.